Re: etyma for Crãciun,RomanianforChristmas

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, g <george.st@...> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 29, 2003, at 12:29 PM, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > If the sense was once "tree" or "yule log"
>
> That's what I was looking for! Pls. tell me more. :-)

No can do, I'm afraid. It's not a Scandinavian thing. I learnt about
it here on cybalist. Check the archives.

>
> > there is ON <kraki> "tree with branches cut off
>

BTW we had a discussion on cybalist (plus references) that Saxo's
whole Rolf Kraki story actually had taken place in Central Europe,
and there might be a connection with a Gracchus of early Polish
chronicles, and perhaps even the city name Kraków.

Torsten